Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1943 — Page 1
FORECAST: Continued warm and humid weather through tomorrow morning; likelihood of thundershowers late this afternoon and evening.
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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 81.
BALCONY EMPIRE:
Mussolini,
Group Organized to Avert Major.Employment Crisis In County. (Photo, Page 5)
A drive to get at least 25,000 more persons into jobs here within the next four months to avert a major employment crisis was started today by the newly formed Citi-
gens Manpower committee with
Youth, 17, Held in Shooting: Quarrel Over Girl Blamed
costed him as he was tinkering with his car. He was captured after a bg flight in which his auto struck another car, injuring the driver then crashed into a house. The accused youth is Donald Pitts, 4409 Kingsley drive, who had been at liberty on his own recognizance pending a juvenile court trial tomorrow on a burglary charge. He was jailed on a charge of
| vagrancy, growing out of today's
shooting episode. The wounded man was John Hurt, 39, of 1750 E. 30th st. A quarrel which Pitts had with Mr. Hurt’s son, Alvin, 17, was blamed for the shooting, Awakened about 3:30 a. m. when he heard someone
headquarters at 20 N. Pennsylvania mea r his car
st. John A. Reis, board of trade president who was made the new
committee chairman, said all able- |
bodied persons not now employed will be asked to register and be interviewed for some kind of a job.
The recruitment of workers will be for all types of jobs, clerical, retail sales, public services and institutions related to general morale of citizens as well as war industries, Mr. Reis said.
Green to Direct
Myron R. Green, industrial commissioner of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, will be director of the campaign. “Recruitment will not be confined ' to residents of Marion county inasmuch as men and women from surrounding counties will be welcomed at the registration headquarters,” Mr.*Green said. The campaign will be directed principally to women who. have never worked outside their homes
before and men who have retired,
or those who are financially independent.
Some Women Hesitant
Mr. Green said a survey has disclosed that hundreds of women have hesitated to apply for jobs because they were not specifically qualified. “Employers have refuted this b:lief, pointing to the fact that 50,000 men and women have been trained in schools here.” Other members of the committee to serve with Mr. Reis include William C. Landmeier, LaVerne Taylor, Stowell C. Wasson, Howard T. Griffith, Harry O. Dougherty, Carl Vestal and Mr. Green.
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| parked in the rear ; yard, Mr. Hur
|went to the car §
and encountered a hm youth. He said John Hurt the latter whipped out an -automatic and fired three bullets, one of them inflicting a flesh wound in the shoulder. Mr, Hurt was taken to Methodist hospital. Accused by Son Mr. Hurt said the youth ran and then escaped in a car. About that time Mr. Hurt’s son appeared in the yard and informed his father, “I know who did it.” He blamed Pitts, saying that they had quarreled over a girl and Pitts boasted that he would put sugar in the Hurt car. Police said an unopened jar of sugar was found back of the car. They said placing of sugar in: the gasoline tank would ruin the car. Within the next few minutes police received three calls concerning a speeding automobile. Coming down Noble st. the car failed to stop at New York. sts..and struck another driven by Addison Tate Jr., 28, of 426 N. La Salle st. Tate was treated at Methodist hospital. The speeding car continued across New York st. and struck a house, wrecking the auto. Police learned from the license (Continued on Page Two)
JEHOVAH WITNESSES MAY REFUSE SALUTE
Earlier Ruling.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P.. ~—Qverruling its own decision of two years standing, the supreme court today upheld the right of of Jehovah's Witnesses to refrain
public schools because the salute is contrary to their religious beliefs. The decision was delivered by Justice Robert H. Jackson. affirmed a decision of the federal district court of Charleston, W. Va,,
preme court's earlier ruling.
HOLD SAILOR IN SLAYING SYDNEY, Australia, June 14 (U. | P.).—A 24-year-old American sailor
Deaths Biukosn Dame. Was LIL Hat Or. I 12] dered held ¥ charge. of |
Supreme -Court Reverses|
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from saluting the American flag at}
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which’ refused to abide by the su-| |
SOME MAY BE HELD IN ARMY AFTER WAR
Holdover of 2,500,000 Seen as Likely.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P.. —An armed force of about 2,500,000 men may be kept in uniform by the United States: “for a consider-
{able time after the cessation of
the most active hostilities,” according to unofficial reports recently transmitted to a house appropriations subcommittee. The statement, made public today, was made by A. F. Hinrichs, acting commissioner of the labor department’s bureau of labor statistics, who emphasized it was based on “unofficial discussions.” Under discussion was the problem facing the bureau in preparing plans to relocate war workers after the war and to cope with the transition to “normal employment,”
Showers, but No Relief—Sorry
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6am’... 72 10a. m. ... 83 1 a. m 11 a. m . 8 8a.m..... 76 12 (noon).. 87 9a. m.... 79 l1p.m ... 88 THERE PROBABLY will be thundershowers this afternoon and evening, but. the weather bureau would not promise that they would bring relief from the torrid weather. Continued warm and humid weather through tomorrow morning was forecast. The mercury climbed steadily. The record for this date is 93 degrees, but the bureau would not predict. whether is would be broken. Yesterday's high of 94 at 3:30 p. m. was only one dégree below the: all-time record for the date of 95 established in 1894.
MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1943
By Reynolds and Eleanor Packard 1— PROLOGUE — EVE OF WAR
IN ROME, an old, ramshackle office building on the Via della Mercede, 54, was some years ago remodeled and ornamented with stucco walls, plaster-of-Paris pillars, and an imiUnder the dome a bar was set up where excellent drinks were served cheaper than those to be had at any bottiglieria in Italy. An efficient, fast long-distance telephone service with soundproof booths was inaugurated on
the mezzanine floor above the bar. Real coffee was served here. butter could be bought at the bar every morn-
tation dome.
ing for breakfast, although
for ordinary people was one egg a week and one quarter of a pound of butter a month. There were free tickets to the opera from time to Seventy per cent reduction on the price
time.
a year.
Eggs fried in
the Italian ration
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday.
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of all Italian railway tickets was to be had for the asking.
HERE WERE issued the latest news bulletins, communiques, and official announcements. And the price of membership to this philanthrepic institution was only 100 lire—about $5 If you were a foreign correspondent stationed in Rome, you had to belong whether or not you wanted to. Thus Il Duce established, as a Fascist-sub-sidized institution, this Foreign Press club, known as the Associazione della Stampa Estera. Besides pampering the correspondents with the object of keeping them in good humor, the club served another purpose: It greatly simplified the work of the OVRA—the Fascist secret police—whose duty it was to check on the activities of the correspondents. : Phone calls to foreign cities went through faster from the Stampa Estera than from the
PRICE FOUR CENTS
side point.
os notice.
nes of the coirespondenls or fr om any otlier
THE REASON was simple — the OVRA, with the aid of expert linguists, had carefully tapped all the phones in the Foreign Press club : . building and was prepared to listen in at a
The Foreign Press club also offered the .
Fascist press ministry—whose pompous official *
titl
ket
utmost.
was the ministry of popular culture—an . opportunity to plant propaganda news, over the bar, on the foreign correspondents. : admit that it was cleverly done and that it was often difficult to distinguish between a Fascist " handout and genuine information. oH On the other hand, once one learned how to = utilize it, the Press club became a valuable marplace for news tips.
One must
We both used it to its
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WAVES 0
LAUNCH Al
MOST FATHERS
T0 FACE DRAFT
BY EARLY 1944
Those Physically Fit Needed To Meet Army’s Goal Of 10 Million.’
WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P=.
regardless. ‘of the number of children’ ‘they support, to - meet. the army's official quota of 10,900,000 men by early 1944 and monthly ealls of 100,000 to 125,000 thereafter “to
provide replacements for casualties. |
The prediction © was: made by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, in testimony released today by a house appropriations ‘subcommittee. He said the assumption that all able-hodied fathers would be taken
ifor military service is “too broad,” |. ;
but. that no distinction has been established between fathers with one or mote children.
Hardship Cases Expected
“I think you will have to take fathers,” he said. . “I am not at| ¢lall sure but what perhaps a great majority of them will have to go.” He cited as one exception the ' “extreme hardship” case covering a man: “With two or three cilildren, whose wife’ is an invalid and who |
has nothing except what he earns, |
and who, when he goes home, takes care of his wife and children, gets the meals and washes the children’s clothes.” Hershey told the committee there is a distinction between “administration children and just children” for selective service purposes and than an “administrative child” is one conceived by an. otherwise eligible registrant prior to Pearl Harbor.
Ease Physical Standards Fathers are now eligible for induction, he said, in local boards where 1-A registrants are completely exhausted. He added, however, that relaxation of army and navy physical standards: will very materially reduce the number of fathers to be taken by delaying their induction time Wiree or four months. “But you eventually ‘would be up to the place where you would have to make up your mind whether to go deeply into the. limited service men, reduce the planned size of the armed forces or whether you are going to take fathers,” Hershey said.
GUERRILLAS STILL ACTIVE By UNITED PRESS A Tokyo broadcast reported by the OWT revealed indirectly today that guerrilla reisistance is continuing in the Philippines and has. reached
close to Manila.
of what will happen to . (Page 1.) '
tells about the new pi See “The Thrill of
IN THE TIMES TODAY—
Balcony Empire: The first installment of the best-seller by Reynolds and Eleanor Packard, an inside story
Our Town: Anton Scherrer in his own inirnitable style
Raymond Clapper: Clapper, - ‘an idea of England's long-term view of the war, and * icidentally. gets Maj Homer J. Sandusky, of In-
Italy when the allies strike.
es at Herron Art Museum. eek,” (Page 11). on a tour of England, gets
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They, Should Worry About the got |
After ‘months in the schoolroom, Indianapolis youths were letting off steam today as they cavorted in the public pools. And it’s a good day for it for the mercury is shooting toward the top of the thermometer again. The scene here is at Garfield park.
YANK FLIERS DOWN 25 MORE JAP PLANES
1038 Docroved in . Last 10 Months.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P)). —American fliers in the Solomon islands, virtually wiping out a second large Japanese aerial raiding force within a week, today claimed 1038 Japanese planes shot down during the 10 months’ Solomons campaign. American heavy bombers have again blasted Japanese installations at 'Kahili in the Solomons, the navy announced today. A communique said that all American planes returned safely from the raid, which took place Saturday night (Solomons time). Navy, Marine and army fliers fought a series of furious dog fights over the American-held Russell islands north of Guadalcanal Saturday, shooting down 25 and possibly 33 enemy Zeros out of ‘a Taiding force of 40 or 50. Six. American ; planes were lost, but four of the six pilots were rescued.
Jap Cabinet Holds Emergency Session
By UNITED PRESS The Japanese cabinet met in Tokyo: today to lay the groundwork for a special session of the diet as reports from throughout the Pacific told of new and heavy inroads on their air strength at advanced bases. .
The special session of the Japa-|
nese parliament was called to meet a war situation. described by Premier Hideki Tojo as “critical,” Tokyo broadcasts indicated. The war budget appeared the major concern.
NEW- RADIO IN AFRICA ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, June 14 (U. P.).—A new proallied radio station began broadcasting to the peoples of occupied Europe today from somewhere in North Africa. Equipment for the 50,000-watt medium. wave station pas brought & from the United States.
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Hoosier Heroes — Two Local Men on List Of Missing
Missing
TWO INDIANAPOLIS soldiers, S, Sgt. Paul R. Cribelar and Cpl. Oliver R. Neese, are missing in action. Sgt. Cribelar, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cribelar, 1140 N. Alton ave,,r has been stationed in England, and Cpl. Neese, the husband of Mrs. Jane Neese, 1943 Broadway, was serving somewhere = the Pacific. Sgt. Cribelar entered the army in August, 1942, and was graduated from the army air forces ‘gunnery school - at Harlengen,
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HOUSE COMMITTEE KILLS FUNDS FOR NYA
Complete Liquidation of Agency Ordered.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P). —The house appropriations committee today called for complete liquidation of the national youth administration on grounds that its
functions no longer are necessary in time of war.
ing any new funds to the agency in a combined labor department-fed-eral security agency appropriation bill. In this bill the committee took $111,421,630 out of funds for various agencies, including the NBYA, which are under direction of Federal Security Administrator Paul -V. McNutt. Rejecting a subcommittee recommendation of $40,800,000 for the NYA the full committee recommended instead that it be allowed tise $3,000,000 of its previous- | coast. ly-appropriated funds to liquidate its activities. The.
subcommittee talian, previously | liad cit the NYA funds,
The committee voted against’ giv-.
NAZI SPY HELPED IN PEARL HARBOR RAID
Built Dormer Window to Give Signal.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P.). —A German spy played ‘a major role in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, providing the Japanese with the numbers, and types of American ships there and devising and operating a system of light signals for betrayal of the U.S. fleet four days before the attack, the office of war information revealed today. ard Julius Otto Kuehn, a German agent and member of the Nazi party, was arrested Dec. 8, 1941, found guilty of espionage by a military commission on Feb. 21, 1942, and sentenced to be shot. On Oct. 26, 1942, his sentence was commuted to 50 years at hard labor. Kuehn claims ‘that he missed becoming Gestapo chief under Heinrich - Himmler ause Reinhold (Continucd on Page Two)
YANKEE BIG Gn ASSAULT
Linosa Surrenders to Allie . Eliminating Last of Nuisance Isles.
"ALLIED HEADQUA TERS, North ‘Affica, June (US Py. “Weves of Kmerie
. four-engined bombers, pus
ing a possible pre-invasi aerial offensive against Sicil shattered installations at t big airdromes yesterday: an ran up the two-day toll enemy planes hit in attacks on this strategic island to at least 158; it was announg today. The middle-eastern comma took over the assault on. Sicily, Cairo communique’ revealed, Ww i the Northwest African air force confined their activities to patrols
ling and reconnaissance after record conquest of three I islands in the Sicilian narrows three days. (The Anglu-Alnerican aerial of! fensive against Germany tape off last night after a record hours in which 5250 tons of bom were cascaded on the Reich. forces of British bombers attac the Rhineland and other t in Germany while Beauf sank one supply ship, another and damaged four vessels in an attack on.an convoy off’ the Dutch coast.)
150 Planes Destroyed
The American Middle-E bombers loosed their attacks on Gerbini and Catania airdromes § eastern Sicily, 24 hours after t northwest African aerial destroyed or damaged 150 plan raids on three airdromes on western portion of the island Aircraft dispersal areas at bini were well covered with bursts and fires and explosions observed. Three enemy planes tempting te take off ran into ploding bombs and were destro (Continued on Page Two)
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Fortresses Raid on Bremen
Dama LONDON, June 14 (U. P.).— onsla American army h uarters announced today that photographs showed heavy ge to German naval ins at Bremen in the flying f raid yesterday on the big port and U-boat base. The pictures losed an intense concentration of b bursts in the area of haven No. 1, part of the Bremen shipbuilding yards, and at least a dozen hits on and around the buildings of th Atlas Werke shipyards. Other hits its on adjacent warehouses were s The Bremen ald high-lighted a record 48-hour offensive that sent 5250, tons of Anglo- Athericalyboinhs crashing on Ge , raided obJectives in the F d and elsewhere in the Re: i ast: night and blasted. six ships off the Dutch
d the total
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onslaught of the war—and it believed that only a slightly, bombload was concentrated (Continued on Page
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